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Submitted by nickw on Tue, 2010-12-14 11:50"UCSF is poised for great success, now and in the years to come. With more efficient operations and lower costs, vigorous fundraising initiatives, and budgets allocated and aligned to the priorities, the future is bright."
— Susan Desmond-Hellmann, Chancellor of UCSF
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Patient Care
UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion is one of two main patient care sites of UCSF Medical Center, which for the 10th consecutive year has been ranked as one of the top 10 hospitals in the country by US News & World Report.
UCSF Mount Zion is an innovative hub of specialized outpatient clinics, surgery services and comprehensive cancer care. It also is home to a variety of support services for patients and their families. For more information, click here.
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Mount Zion Overview
The UCSF Mount Zion campus is devoted entirely to patient care. UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion comprises the entire site, serving as an innovative hub of specialized outpatient clinics, surgery services and comprehensive cancer care.
UCSF Mount Zion is one of the two main patient care sites of UCSF Medical Center. The other site is UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus.
Education
When human embryonic stem cell research began in the late 1990s, only two university labs in the United States were conducting studies – one at the University of Wisconsin and one at UCSF. Both efforts involved a senior scientist and a handful of junior colleagues.
Many labs nationwide were conducting studies with adult human stem cells and animal stem cells, but the excitement about the potential of the field had not taken hold. Since then, it has burgeoned. Key to maintaining the field's momentum will be educating the next generation of stem cell scientists.
Research
Since the success in 1998 by the University of Wisconsin’s James Thomson in deriving human embryonic stem cells from embryos, the stem cell research field has exploded.
The discovery by Japan’s Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, in 2006, of a way to reprogram adult skin cells back to an embryonic-like state signified a second exponential advance.
Patient Care
The great hope for stem cell research is the development of treatments for devastating diseases. UCSF basic science and clinical research teams are at the forefront of this effort.
In studies conducted in the culture dish and in animals, scientists are learning how to prompt stem cells to develop into so-called adult, or specialized, cells of tissues such as the heart, pancreas and brain. The ultimate goal of these studies is to transplant specialized cells, such as heart cells, into patients to regenerate damaged tissues.
Overview
Since 1981, when the University of California, San Francisco’s Gail Martin, PhD, co-discovered embryonic stem cells in mice and coined the term embryonic stem cell, UCSF has been a key player in the stem cell field.
Education
As a health sciences university, UCSF closely aligns clinical care, medical discovery, and teaching.
Central to this mission is the education of physician residents, doctors who have received a medical degree and are undergoing training in a specialty.
In 2007, when the Department of Neurology unveiled its flexible residency program, it directly addressed one of the most important challenges for modern academic medical centers: balancing clinical education and training with the mission of training future researchers in neurological disease.
Research
UCSF has a long history of leadership in neuroscience research, including a Nobel Prize. In 2010, it signaled its intention to maintain that leadership when it announced construction of a new neurosciences building at the UCSF Mission Bay campus.
Affiliates
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) maintains affiliations with two hospitals in San Francisco and three medical research organizations that provide valuable support in its efforts to advance discovery and educate and train graduate students, residents and scholars.
Patient Care
Every day, at every hospital in the United States, patients arrive with brain-related disorders ranging from tumors to delirium. Too often, these patients never see a specialist.
Overview
Disorders of the brain, spine and nervous system affect more than 50 million adults in the United States. These complex conditions – from migraine headaches, autism and Alzheimer’s disease to stroke, vascular disorders, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, brain tumors and more – pose vexing prevention and treatment challenges for patients, their families and their health care teams.
Community Overview
Serving the community has been ingrained in the ethos of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) since the early days of treating neighbors in need after the great 1906 earthquake in San Francisco.